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+title = "Undergraduate Research Opportunities"
+date = 2017-09-27T08:41:21-05:00
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+I'm looking for a few good undergraduate students! Please contact me if you're interested in any of the tasks on this page.
+More significant engagement with masters or doctoral students on any of these topics is also welcome.
+
+*(Last updated Feb 25/ 2018)*
+
+### System Characterization
+
+I have written an automatic system characterization performance tool that needs some more love. Some software-engineering opportunities
+
+* Generating [rust](https://www.rust-lang.org) bindings for useful libraries (CUDA, hwloc)
+* Moving parts of the application over to rust
+* Changing the tool better handle the existence of only some of the libraries it uses.
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+Some more researchy tasks:
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+* Adding persistent storage discovery and performance characterization 
+* Adding network storage discovery and performation characterization (MPI, RPC, and so on)
+* Adding communication collective performation characterization (MPI / NCCL)
+
+## Application Characterization
+
+I have written a heterogeneous application profiling tool
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+* Trace application disk I/O
+* Extending the tool to work with networked applications
+    * Trace application network requests (MPI or otherwise)
+    * Visualization of parallel traces
+* Techniques for replaying application profiles / rescheduling computation and communication
+
+## Automatic Architecture Determination
+
+Researchy tasks:
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+* Performance estimation for GPU kernels
+* Architecture generation as a constrained optimization problem